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Sunday, February 15, 2025

Conor Friedersdorf
Feb 15, 2026
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This Week’s Selections

This Is How A Child Dies of Measles (link)

The Democrats Aren’t Built for This (link)

What Is Claude? Anthropic Doesn’t Know, Either (link)

Are We in Danger of Overdiagnosing Mental Illness? (link)

Orcas and Ourselves (link)

The Secrets to Extending Human Lifespans Might Lie in the Animals That Live for Centuries (link)

FLASHBACK: Television and U.S. Fiction (link)

Other Items of Note

  • Gisele Pelicot shares her story (link)

  • Eve Fairbanks: Myths about South Africa (link)

  • Thomas Chatterton Williams: The real story of slavery doesn’t serve any one faction (link)

  • How Peru built scaffolding to become the leading exporter of blueberries (link)

  • Losing: A Personal History (link)

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  • Ending the surge in Minnesota isn’t enough (link)

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